Percussive/harmonic sound separation by non-negative matrix factorization with smoothness/sparseness constraints

In this paper, unsupervised learning is used to separate percussive and harmonic sounds from monaural non-vocal polyphonic signals. Our algorithm is based on a modified non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) procedure that no labeled data is required to distinguish between percussive and harmonic b...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Canadas Quesada, Francisco Jesus, Vera Candeas, Pedro, Ruiz Reyes, Nicolas, Carabias Orti, Julio J., Cabanas Molero, Pablo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/23259
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/23259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13636-014-0026-5
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:So -- Mesurament
Anàlisi harmònica (Música)
Descrição
Resumo:In this paper, unsupervised learning is used to separate percussive and harmonic sounds from monaural non-vocal polyphonic signals. Our algorithm is based on a modified non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) procedure that no labeled data is required to distinguish between percussive and harmonic bases because information from percussive and harmonic sounds is integrated into the decomposition process. NMF is performed in this process by assuming that harmonic sounds exhibit spectral sparseness (narrowband sounds) and temporal smoothness (steady sounds), whereas percussive sounds exhibit spectral smoothness (broadband sounds) and temporal sparseness (transient sounds). The evaluation is performed using several real-world excerpts from different musical genres. Comparing the developed approach to three current state-of-the art separation systems produces promising results.